William Howitt

HCA dedicated his book A Poet's Day Dreams to Charles Dickens , whom he visited in 1857. He also, while visiting England, stayed with William and Mary Howitt at The Elms, Lower Clapton. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

CB 's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson . She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray and (in later years) a shorter one with poet...

In January 1847, CB 's letter Mr. Howitt 's Homes and Haunts of the Poets appeared in the Athenæum.

Again her impressions were distinctly mixed. She enjoyed the tail-end of the Great Exhibition; she met George Eliot , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Charles Kingsley , as well as the William HowittHowitts ; but she was...

FB's lifelong friendship with Per Böklin survived her refusal of his hand and his marriage to someone else. The influence he had on her thinking was shared by Stina, Countess Sommerhielm , and the academic...

The next year FB followed this with I Dalarna, 1844, a novel set in Dalecarlia, a remote, still semi-pagan district of Sweden. One of two English versions, Life in Dalecarlia: the Parsonage of...

This translation was almost synchronous with publication in Swedish, of which the second volume came out in December 1853, with the final one due to follow a month or two later. This set Howitt a...

The first volume made up of collected numbers of The People's Journal launched in London on 1 July 1846, with a long advertisement insisting that people was used in the sense of nation, not class...

This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett , since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her...

CC 's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting...

EG first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in Mary and William Howitt 's Visits to Remarkable Places.

One happy result of this expansion of her sphere was the cementing of her friendship with Mary and William Howitt .

She also liked to escape from Manchester when she was able to. She spent the evening of Christmas 1850 at William and Mary Howitt 's home in London swapping ghost stories with them and Eliza Meteyard .

EG gave the manuscript of Mary Barton to William Howitt for his advice—he later claimed to have suggested the novel—and he in turn showed it to John Forster , a reader for Chapman and Hall

Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer (who was probably introduced to EG by William and Mary Howitt ) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may...